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Terrorism has reached the Thailand capital Bangkok that was world famous tourist centre till now as the massive bomb explosion at a shopping centre near the famous Erawan Shrine in Ratchaprasong shocked the world, killing 27 people and injuring many more. The bomb on a motor cycle went off around 19:00 local time (12:00 GMT). Thailand police spokesman Lt. Gen. ...

Ramadi crisis deepens with the UN funds running out and food stocks depleting fast, forcing the aid agencies rush for fundraising to help people fleeing the city of Ramadi in central Iraq for the second time in less than a month. Already 25,000 people have fled Ramadi, the headquarters of Anbar province n Iraq where recent attacks by Islamic State ...

A video released by the Islamic State (IS) militant group Saturday claimed one of the two Japanese hostages held by it was beheaded, according to media reports. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned the possible execution, and called it “an unforgivable act of violence”. The government said it was verifying the video, which claimed that Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa was ...

What happens if one day some cranky army general of Pakistan fails to give in to the temptation of knocking more than a few heads and decide to hand over one or more of the bombs to a Mullah Omar or a Haqqani, asks veteran diplomat Rajiv Dogra in his new book: “Where Borders Bleed: An Insider’s Account of Indo-Pakistan ...

In a bomb explosion on Church Street outside the Coconut Groove Restaurant at 8:30 pm on Sunday evening, one woman was critically injured and two others were hurt and all the three were rushed to the nearby Mallya hospital, said Bangalore Police Commissioner M.N. Reddi. (The woman succumbed to the head injury 3 hours later, see update) The woman was ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared the launch of a satellite for the SAARC region in 2016 during his first SAARC Summit on Wednesday. Modi said, "We must work with compassion of our hearts, but also with the power of science." Modi said that the gift of India “will benefit us.” On the PMO’s micro blogging website, External Affairs Minister Syed ...

India has called for changes to the management of the internet infrastructure to prevent terrorists from exploiting it by pointing fingers to the use of internet technologies during the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack. While speaking to the UN Security Council on Wednesday during a marathon session on international cooperation to combat terrorism, India’s UN Ambassador Asoke Kumar Mukerji drew attention ...

Prime Ministr Narendra Modi will head to Fiji on Tuesday evening after his Australian visit, where he hold bilateral talks with his counterpart Tony Abbot and addressed the Australian Parliament in Canberra this morning. Modi is the first Indian PM to address the Australian Parliament. Addressing the gathering, Modi raised his voice against terrorism, which he mentioned as a major ...

Al Qaeda, which has announced plans to target India, is keen on recruiting youth trained in computers or aeronautics for its terror designs and is taking the help of banned terror outfit SIMI for this, officials with access to intelligence inputs have revealed. Sources said intelligence inputs shared by central agencies with the police in some major cities including Delhi, ...

As the terrorist attacks get increased, Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh called on governments across the world to collectively address the issue of safe havens for organised criminal and terrorist groups on Wednesday. At an Interpol ministerial meeting and general assembly conducted in Monaco, Rajnath Singh said, "Governments across the world have to collectively address the issue of safe havens ...

Pakistan’s Punjab government has formed a joint investigation team to probe the Wagah suicide attack on Tuesday. It will submit its report in the next three days. Home Minister Shuja Khanzada Monday said the probe team, comprising representatives of Chenab Rangers, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Counter Terrorism Department, Special Branch and Punjab Police, will look for possible security lapses that allowed ...

India’s UN Ambassador Asoke Kumar Mukerji has asked the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Friday to enforce without exception its resolutions on countering terrorism in order to stave off "an ever-widening spiral of violence and destruction". "The Council must seriously and transparently take measures available to it under the Charter to require member states of implement its resolutions on countering ...

After a soldier was killed and the Parliament was attacked on Wednesday, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper called it as the second terrorist attack that took place in three days. The soldier was shot to death and the gunshots were being fired outside a room where Harper was speaking. As per reports, treasury board minister Tony Clement said, "PM (Harper) ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama have agreed to make “joint and concerted efforts” to dismantle safe havens for terror and criminal networks like LeT, JeM, D-company, al Qaeda and Haqqani network, on Tuesday. The duos have also agreed that the two countries will take steps to disrupt financial and tactical support to these terror outfits during ...

Now that the whole world is outraged at the video showing the actual beheading of US journalist James Foley, experts began to crack the incident shot-by-shot to pronounce that it was indeed a dead body of the victim that knifed to death and the video was well-scripted, taking care of even the portions in which both characters have actually acted ...

Five explosions rocked Pune, the second-tier city of India, on wednesday evening hours before the scheduled visit of Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to a function at Pune’s Gandharv Theatre, while the sixth explosive was defused by an alert security team, reminding similar explosions which rocked the city of Bangalore in July 2008. The bombs were placed in garbage can ...

India has alleged that the Pakistan intelligence agency ISI has reactivated terrorist training camps in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK). The camps are likely to send 2,500 terrorists into India to carry out their notorious plans soon, said Jitendra Singh, India’s junior minister of Home Affairs in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The Indian government said it has ...